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She “opened her heart” to him,
so wide that her mouth wouldn’t shut.
And the petals that once graced
her beauty before marriage
were pressed between the pages
of his journal entries and
in memory of the lovely fragrance
he fell in love with so long ago.
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Author’s note: Instead of taking my own photographic images to fulfill the weekly photo challenge: flowers, I decided to write poetry. The “time lapse” of this “dark” poetry took less than a minute.
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